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Greenwood Village, Colorado

Technical Specialist working in the shop assembling, repairing, and maintaining bicycles and snow sports equipment, as well as delivering extraordinary service to customers both in the shop and on the retail floor.

U.S. And Canada

Following my passion, serving as bicycle technician for the international non-profit organization charged at its core to teach youth and adults with special needs to ride bicycles.• Traveling the U.S. and Canada administering camps and maintaining all bicycle hardware; coordinating efforts with host organizations; preparing parents/volunteers to continue the training efforts following the camp.• Coaching, motivating, and inspiring campers to achieve what thought couldn’t be done; nurturing confidence, self-esteem, and independence; changing lives one rider at a time.

Cycling instructor, implementing a self-created curriculum for youth with little to no bicycling experience - gliding, balancing, turning, stopping along with safety and fun in mind.

Greater Denver Area

IT Software Development ManagerLed 12 application development teams in full software lifecycle; producing traffic mediation, network alarms, audits, and reporting applications for global enterprises.• Consistently delivered high quality, incremental software releases every 1-3 months; adding new feature functionality, reducing costs, solidifying customer retention, and returning millions to the bottom line with each release.• Controlled and audited organization’s annual budget of $4+ million.• Deployed and continuously improved methodologies, processes, and controls to simplify business practices and to operate more effectively and efficiently.• Built, managed, trained, and integrated staff augmentations from India and Mexico to supply additional capacity at a significant cost savings.• Administered Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and security audits - documentation, testing, and acceptance – keeping all applications in accordance to Verizon and government regulations.

Greater Denver Area

Concurrently ran Software Test and Production Operations teams; building both organizations from the ground up; testing and operating applications for global network traffic mediation, error reporting, and audit control systems.• Led quality assurance software testing of 25 applications with a team of 8-32 direct reports; supporting regular quarterly implementations.• Operated 22 applications in high volume production environments on a 7x24 schedule, maintaining 99.99% uptime, and minimizing customer impacts with exceptional responsiveness.• Initiated and fostered pragmatic methodologies and analytical techniques across teams; providing consistent and logical fault isolation. These were adopted as the standard operating procedures across the wider organization.• Received “All Star” and “Summit” (highest level of commendations) awards.

Greater Denver Area

Lead quality assurance software tester; dispatching reliable software for 10 applications involved with voice traffic mediation, error reporting, audit controls, and various messaging products - email, fax, and internet services.• Evaluated software requirements, designs, and interface control documentation for understandability, traceability, testability, compliance, and consistency; imparting methodical and repeatable progression to error discovery.• Detected, isolated, and resolved errors in all phases of the software development life cycle.• Received “All Star” commendation awards four times during this period.

Masters Of Engineering

Bachelors Of Aerospace Engineering Science